Archive for October 2017

PERPSECTIVAS BIBLIOTECARIAS: Erik Alonso García, coordinador de Desarrollo de Colecciones en el Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, campus Santa Fe, en la Ciudad de México

Bridget Guardia | 31 Oct 2017

Diseño curricular, tecnología, y un proyecto especial llamado “Vínculo Académico”. Estos son algunos de los temas tratados en la segunda entrega de PERSPECTIVAS BIBLIOTECARIAS, donde entrevistamos a Erik Alonso García Arellano, coordinador de Desarrollo de Colecciones en el Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), campus Santa Fe, en la Ciudad de México.…

“Paul’s Place in a First-Century Revival of the Discourse of ‘Equality’”

L. L. Welborn | 30 Oct 2017

The discourse of “equality,” which originated in democratic Athens, revived in the first century CE, in response to growing inequality between the classes. …

“Space, Place, and the Race for Power: Rabbis, Demons, and the Construction of Babylonia”

Sara Ronis |

Demons were an important part of Late Antique life across religious divides. This article explores how the authors of the Babylonian Talmud “think with” the demonic to produce meaningful rabbinic spaces.…

“Exegesis and Appropriation: Reading Rashi in Late Medieval Spain”

Eric Lawee |

The Commentary on the Torah of Rashi (Solomon ben Isaac; 1040–1105) stands out as the most widely studied and influential Hebrew Bible commentary ever composed.…

“Finitude, Phenomenology, and Theology in Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit”

Tarek R. Dika |

Heidegger’s descriptions of Dasein’s “finitude” (Endlichkeit) in Sein und Zeit are based on Dasein’s experience of thrownness and mortality, and not on theology and the relation to God, methodologically suspended early on in the treatise.…

Vitamin D and inflammatory markers

Cesar De Oliveira |

The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for October is from the Journal of Nutritional Science and is entitled 'Vitamin D and inflammatory markers: cross-sectional analyses using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)'. Authors: Cesar de Oliveira, Jane P Biddulph, Vasant Hirani and Ione Jayce Ceola Schneider present the key findings to their paper below.

Building a sustainable future: urgent action needed

Vicky Anning |

We need to act urgently to increase the energy efficiency of our buildings as the world’s emerging middle classes put increasing demands on our planet’s energy resources. These are the findings of a new report, published in MRS Energy & Sustainability by authors Matthias M. Koebel, Jannis Wernery and Wim J. Malfait.

LIBRARIAN PERSPECTIVES: Erik Alonso García Arellano, Collection Development Coordinator, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Bridget Guardia | 27 Oct 2017

Curriculum design, technology, and a special project called “Vínculo Académico”. These are some of the subjects discussed in our second Librarian Perspectives interview, with Erik Alonso García Arellano, Collection Development Coordinator at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), Santa Fe Campus, in Mexico City.…

How to save giant tropical fruit bats: work with local hunters who use bat teeth as money

Tyrone H. Lavery and John Fasi |

Cultural value of bat teeth means traditional hunting customs are “a positive, not a negative” Bats often get the short end of the stick—when you look around in October, they’re featured in Halloween decorations right up there with unsavory characters like monsters and ghosts.…

The Taipan Galaxy Survey — Mapping the Local Universe

Elisabete Lima da Cunha | 26 Oct 2017

Taipan is a new survey of galaxies starting in late 2017 that will be carried out on the 1.2-metre UK Schmidt Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory.…

Critically Endangered Sumatran Tigers On Path To Recovery In An ‘In Danger’ UNESCO World Heritage Site

Wulan Pusparini | 24 Oct 2017

A new scientific publication from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park Authority looks at the effectiveness of the park’s protection zone and finds that the density of Sumatran tigers has increased despite the continued threat of living in an ‘In Danger’ World Heritage Site.…

Cambridge Open – Celebrating International Open Access Week 2017

Abigail MacDonald | 23 Oct 2017

Cambridge University Press is proud to support International Open Access Week, running from 23rd to 29th October 2017. As a leading University Press we are actively engaged with Open Access, and our Open Access publishing platform, Cambridge Open, serves authors and the wider community by publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed OA content. Follow our Facebook and Twitter pages this week to read blog posts from our Open Access team, read our most-read Open Access articles, and learn more about Cambridge Open.